Irritation vs Grudge - What's the difference?
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The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger.
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The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; especially, the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
(countable) Deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.
* 1607 , Barnabe Barnes, THE DIVILS CHARTER: A TRAGÆDIE Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the ?ixt , ACTVS. 5, SCÆ. 1:
* 1879 , Henry James, The American , Rinehart, page 288:
* 2001 , H. Rider Haggard, All Adventure: Child of Storm/a Tale of Three Lions , Essential Library (xLibris), page 274:
(obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XV:
To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
* 1608 , Henrie Gosson, The Woefull and Lamentable wast and spoile done by a suddaine Fire in S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, on Munday the tenth of Aprill. 1608. , reprinted by F. Pawsey, Old Butter Market, Ipswich, 1845, page 6:
* 1841 , Edmund Burke, The Annual Register , Rivingtons, page 430:
* 1869 , Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment , Fields, Osgood, & Co., p. 62 [http://books.google.com/books?id=dk8IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62#v=onepage&f=false]:
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* 1953 , , Viking Press, 1953, chapter 3:
(obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
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(obsolete) To feel compunction or grief.
Irritation is a related term of grudge.
As nouns the difference between irritation and grudge
is that irritation is the act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger while grudge is (countable) deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.As a verb grudge is
(obsolete) to grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.irritation
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
Derived terms
* irritative * irritantExternal links
* * (Webster 1913) ----grudge
English
Noun
(en noun)- to hold a grudge against someone
- to have a grudge against someone
- to bear a grudge against someone
- Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it
- I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre,
- He ?hall haue two ?teele bullets ?trongly charg’d
- I have never mentioned it to a human creature ; I have kept my grudge' to myself. I daresay I have been wicked, but my ' grudge has grown old with me.
- It is towards Saduko that he bears a grudge , for you know, my father, one should never pull a drowning man out of the stream — which is what Saduko did, for had it not been for his treachery, Cetewayo would have sunk beneath the water of Death — especially if it is only to spite a woman who hates him.
Derived terms
* hold a grudge * have a grudge * bear a grudgeVerb
(grudg)- And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...].
- Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow, that we ought rather delight (and take pleasure) in Gods louing chastisements, and admonitions, then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses, or tribulations :
- If we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist?
- Of course, his interest in the war and in the regiment was unbounded; he did not take to drill with especial readiness, but he was insatiable of it, and grudged every moment of relaxation.
- Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
- I've never seen such people for borrowing and lending; there was dough changing hands in all directions, and nobody grudged anyone.
- Perish they / That grudge one thought against your majesty!
- (Bishop Fisher)